Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.8.88, English translation, including a commentary (Gaudiya-bhasya). This text is similair to the Caitanya-caritamrita and narrates the pastimes of Lord Caitanya, proclaimed to be the direct incarnation of Krishna (as Bhagavan) This is verse 88 of Madhya-khanda chapter 8—“The Manifestation of Opulences”.
Verse 2.8.88
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.8.88:
কোন-দিন গোপী-ভাবে করেন রোদন কারে বলে `রাত্রি-দিন’—নাহিক স্মরণ ॥ ৮৮ ॥
कोन-दिन गोपी-भावे करेन रोदन कारे बले `रात्रि-दिन’—नाहिक स्मरण ॥ ८८ ॥
kona-dina gopī-bhāve karena rodana kāre bale `rātri-dina’—nāhika smaraṇa || 88 ||
kona-dina gopi-bhave karena rodana kare bale `ratri-dina’—nahika smarana (88)
English translation:
(88) Some days He cried in the mood of a gopī and could not remember whether it was day or night.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Sometimes during His exhibition of the symptoms of gopī-bhāva to His intimate devotees who were under the shelter of conjugal attachment, the Lord displayed a loss of external sense by failing to distinguish between day and night. In this way the Lord exhibited His Vraja pastimes of separation.